Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.

Friday, September 28, 2012

Don Donovan's World - San Michele, Castiglione di Garfagnana, Tuscany

Ramblings of a much published New Zealand
author

28 September 2012

Moss, when it is on
top of a wall and has been in sunshine for an hour or two, makes a luxurious
cushion and so I was able to work in comfort on the rendering of this ancient
church in a rampart-defended hill town above the upper Serchio
valley.

You can see a long way from here and I wondered how often fearful
citizens might have prepared boiling pitch to pour on invaders in past years.
It's peaceful now but has been raided by everyone from Longobards to Nazis; that
silent tower has seen them all.